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Professor Joseph M Pappachan MD, FRCP is a Senior Consultant Endocrinologist at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Clinical Chair and Honorary Professor of foot research and musculo-skeletal metabolic research at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is also an academic advisor to the University of Manchester Medical School, UK and Honorary Professor to Manipal University, India. Senior researcher with contributions in every domain of hormone science and metabolism. Special research interests in musculoskeletal metabolism, endocrine hypertension, metabolic dysfunction associated fatty liver disease, obesity, diabesity, diabetic foot disease, parathyroid disease and pituitary disorders. Research domains include original clinical research, systematic reviews, scoping and best practice reviews to enhance development of clinical guidance to practicing physicians and primary care specialists. Has multi-national research collaborations with senior researchers and academics across the world and across all continents. Trained Cochrane Reviewer with current multinational systematic review collaborations. Best postgraduate trainee in internal medicine and Gold Medalist from Coimbatore Medical College, India in 2001, Excellent Clinical Teacher Award winner from Keele University Medical School, UK in 2012, Best Postgraduate Medical Trainer at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK in 2023. Author to more than 160 indexed publications with >140 as first/final/corresponding author in high profile journals including New England Journal of Medicine, BMJ, Annals of Internal Medicine, Cochrane Systematic Database Reviews, JCEM, and World Journal Group of periodicals. Associate Editor to 6 PubMed indexed Journals including World Journal of Diabetes, Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes, Current Drug Safety, and TouchREVIEWS in Endocrinology, and Editorial Board Member to Scientific Reports (Nature Group), and JCEM Case Reports (Endocrine Society). Editor in Chief/Senior Editor to Elsevier textbooks: 1) Endocrine Hypertension: From Basic Science to Clinical Practice, 2) Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease and 3) Handbook of Endocrine Imaging. Speaker to more than 20 international speeches to date. More than 4300 citations, and H-index 40. Lifetime Member of Association of Physicians of India, British Medical Association, Diabetes UK, American Endocrine Society, Society for Endocrinology (UK) and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK. Peer reviews to more than 300 high profile manuscripts to various high profile medical Journals including Lancet, BMJ, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, JCEM and many other journals including World Journal (BPG) group of journals. Written more than 25 editorials in various Journals including Annals of Internal Medicine to date. I am currently developing a multinational collaboration to make a Cochrane Systematic Review Group to study diagnostic test accuracy systematic reviews of various endocrine assays to guide clinicians enhance their endocrine diagnostic testing. Also, I am currently developing a multinational diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) research collaboration to study diabetic foot disease with the plan to develop an Artificial Intelligence-based app for helping clinicians for easy and early detection and management of DFU. I also have multinational research collaborations to study musculoskeletal metabolic research, parathyroid disease and endocrine hypertension. I have good editing skills, analytical skills and organizational skills to develop research and academic projects. On an average day, I handle around 200 emails from various academic collaborators and Journals and effectively communicate with them to further my research and academic ventures. My interpersonal and leadership qualities help me to organize my multinational research collaborations, conferences and enhance my editing and writing skills. I edited several journal issues and articles through these collaborative ventures. My mentorship, management and problem-solving skills helped many collaborators to improve their research qualities and academic output, and they enjoy working in my team. I enjoy reading fictions, cooking, trekking and swimming during my leisure time. Also, I spend my holidays with my family and friends in travelling and visiting places. I enjoy cinemas and music to relax and rejoice.